Identity: What is your name?
Text: Luke 16:19-21
Who am I?
Whether we know it or not, we are all trying to find the answer to this question. Jesus shows us that the only way to know who we truly are is to be in relationship with him. There, we will find our true identity, as his beloved child.
1) Phil’s sermon centered around identity and finding out who you really are. Share a time in your life when you wrestled with the question, “Who am I?”. Why do you think the question, “Who am I?” is an important question to answer?
2) Jesus, in the parable of the poor and rich man, gives the poor man a name - Lazarus. This is the only time he gives a person a name within a parable. What do you think is the significance of this? How does God reveal his compassion and love in naming the poor man?
3) Jesus came to give everyone who struggles and wrestles with sin and pain a new start, even the man called “Legion.” He can take the wreckage of our lives and transform us, and make us a new person, giving us a new name. How does it make you feel to hear that Jesus gives us a new start, a new name? Do you find it difficult to know that God loves you, no matter what your past and present looks like? How has he transformed your heart?
4) Phil said that we overcome the battle inside of our hearts by getting alone with God, being with him, wrestling with him, and asking him to change us. As we do this, God gives us a new identity. How can we spend time alone with God this week? What does your alone time with him look like? How does this alone time with him affect you?
